Your pal Dave here, with such terrible news this week, I'm pleased to bring you news of something positive, the trailer for the new Coen Brothers film, THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE.
This film has a fantastic cast. Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Tony Shalhoub, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Scarlett Johansson, and Jon Polito, among others.
More importantly, this is a Coen Brothers film.
There are very few filmmakers or filmmaking teams who have consistently earned my respect and admiration as artists, and in my opinion the Coen Brothers are a treasure of American filmmaking. They have a true artistic vision, strongly and clearly express their sensibilities, and consistently produce a quality of work that few can rival.
When I'm watching a Coen Brothers film, I know it in an uncommon way. In the same way that I know I'm watching a film by Spike Lee, another of America's truly great filmmakers of vision. You can feel it, and it makes you glad, that intangible sense that you're in the audience of true artistry. I suppose this is especially true given this past summer's unimpressive lineup of films.
Well, if only in the world of film, the future seems very bright right now, with a good number of fine films seemingly headed our way. Of these, the only film I'm more eager to see than THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE is THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. This, of course, because I've already seen my friend Guillermo's brilliant EL ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO (THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE).
I've done my best to keep the file sizes as low as possible, but I fear some of you will be disappointed that these aren't smaller. In any case, I've done what I could, trying to make these look as good as possible, while still being downloadable. Oh, if you could only see the DVD that I ripped this trailer from. It is SUCH A BEAUTIFUL TRAILER in its original form. Alas, I've had to compress it nearly a thousandfold, for its original form is a 3.74GigaByte file. SO beautiful. Ah well, you'll have to settle for the compressed versions below, and go check this trailer out in theatres. These files require QuickTime 5.
-Dave Alvarado, El Cosmico
